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Alan Karras
Alan Karras is Special Assistant to the Dean (Social Sciences), Associate Director of Political Economy, and the G. Eric and Margaret Davis Notable Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. Trained as a historian, he has taught classes in Classical Theories of Political Economy and World History since coming to campus in 1995.
He is the author of Smuggling (2009), and Sojourners in the Sun (1992), along with several edited collections. He is one of the co-authors of W. W. Norton’s bestselling world history textbook, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (which always seems to be in production for a new edition)—and is currently finishing up the research for a new world history of corruption, centered around Britain’s East India Company.
Alan has lived in both Edinburgh and London, where he carried out historical research for several of his books and articles.
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